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Tahnok:


--- Quote from: Acorn on August 19, 2005, 06:25:51 pm ---The guncon2's already work on mame cabinets. You just have to hack in a pedal to one of the guns buttons.

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What I don't get is why does everyone keep trying to hack the pedals into the guns? Why don't people just put them into a keyboard encoder?

Pik4chu:


--- Quote from: tahnok100 on August 19, 2005, 07:49:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: Acorn on August 19, 2005, 06:25:51 pm ---The guncon2's already work on mame cabinets. You just have to hack in a pedal to one of the guns buttons.

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What I don't get is why does everyone keep trying to hack the pedals into the guns? Why don't people just put them into a keyboard encoder?

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Because the guns already have the key that the pedal uses and will thus consume one less terminal on your encoder.  Plus makes for one less cable to disconnect if you wish to remove the gun.  Basically what you are doing is a gamepad hack, but keeping the original game pad ;)

Pik4chu:

ya, tons of threads aboutt this but I gotta ask..

Any word on this board? http://www.r0r3.com/productsusbopticalgun.htm seems to work in windows.. buy main board from happs and so ive heard this board straight from r0r3 but anyone done anything with it?

Acorn:

There was a discussion on this a while back.. but I can't remember where I read it. I think the outcome was that you would have to develop for this gun if you got it, rather than plugging it in and having it work. There were also issues with availability, and obviously price. If your getting it for specific game and board... that I don't know about.

Pik4chu:


--- Quote from: Acorn on August 24, 2005, 01:19:58 pm ---There was a discussion on this a while back.. but I can't remember where I read it. I think the outcome was that you would have to develop for this gun if you got it, rather than plugging it in and having it work. There were also issues with availability, and obviously price. If your getting it for specific game and board... that I don't know about.

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ya, that topic is in the BYAOC lightgun thread.  But no followup was there so I brought it up here too.  Though that part of the thread was old and according to the r0r3 site it says it supports USB interface with windows (and not just PS2 anymore) so thats why I asked.

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